Jeff Garzik wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
To do so, requires that we perhaps do a similar capacity truncation
in sata_mv, but only if we see a metadata block at the expected location
(because a "Legacy" mode drive will use the *real* capacity,
placing the metadata in the 9th sector instead.
Definitely _not_. This is a core Linux maxim: export what the hardware
exports, no more no less. We drive the "bare metal."
..
The hardware limitation here is the SATA controller card:
it corrupts data at the last GB boundary.
The drives themselves are not limited --> one can unplug them and reconnect
to a different controller and have full use of them.
Cheers
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